El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy. Salvador is a restless and unflinching masterclass in the art of reportage by one of the great literary stylists of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783785230
Number of pages: 112
Weight: 87 g
Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 6 mm
Written in Didion’s characteristic style, this stunning work of reportage on the civil war in El Salvador is a haunting and immersive read. Didion potently conveys the climate of horror and all-pervading nervousness,... More
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